Friday, June 14, 2019

It is not enough to speak only of reviving the spirit of the gentleman and religion


Edmund Burke's writings against the French revolution probably had much to do with saving England from the revolution. He said the spirit of the gentleman and the spirit of religion made the civilization of Europe, which the revolution wanted to tear down. It was also a class or caste thing in England of Burke's time with most gentleman existing in the upper classes.

But how much of that spirit of the gentleman and spirit of religion was genetic in origin, since biology is at the deeper origin of our social behavior? Yes, there is a co-evolution between genes and culture but biology is the hardware, culture is the software. As John Cacioppo said, “The genes are like the keyboard on which the song of life is played, but the pianist is the social environment.”

I see the spirit of the gentleman grounded in the warrior and softened or civilized by religion, almost the way women tend to civilize men. But the balance here is important, go too far taking the warrior out of man and the society is vulnerable to other marauding warriors.

Today what is left of the spirit of the gentleman and the spirit of religion are in the process of being destroyed, again. It is not only an attack similar to the attacks of the French revolution, this time self-immolation or suicide is involved, we are not even breeding faster than we are dying. Europe and America are opening their borders (and thighs) to anyone from anywhere. It's even against the law now in many places to speak of saving the white race.

With the help of radical feminism, minorities, and the cheering leftist Media we have gone too far in taking the man out of man, not realizing or not caring that taking the gentleman warrior out of man leaves us and our societies virtually undefended against men who do not behave like European or American gentleman.

Conservatism should be concerned with conserving the genes of Europe and America which in the deepest sense were responsible for the spirit of the gentleman and the spirit of religion that made the civilization of Europe and America...It is not enough to speak only of reviving the spirit of the gentleman and religion.

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